If I run an RPS Planetside 2 outfit (and I vaguely plan to) then it will be with the Vanu Sovereignty. Yes, the purple tech-worshippers are my faction, and so it’s with some delight that I feast on the neither-red-nor-blue goodness of the Vanu faction trailer, below. It’s just some rotating weapons and armour, but it promises so much! PCG also have a bunch of Vanu screenshots. Floaty! Glowy! Purpley!

The Mags are why I always played Vanu, that and they tended to have the least population on every server. I’d usually go for the gritty, heavy metal faction in a setting, but flanking the enemy from rivers and lakes was quite fun.

That’s always been the Planetside aesthetic I think. It may have attained a sort of meaning over time as people spent hundreds or thousands of hours in, but they’re were really quite workmanlike and generic.

It’s a trailer track by Two Steps From Hell called “Am I Not Human?”. If you think you’ve heard it before, you almost certainly have – their music is used on something like 40-50% of all trailers, ever.